Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Natural Quotes, Nobility Quotes

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

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It is commonly said by farmers, that a good pear or apple costs no more time or pains to rear, than a poor one; so I would have no work of art, no speech, or action, or thought, or friend, but the best.

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The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

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Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

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Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

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To be gret is to be misunderstood.

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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

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Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

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The best part of health is fine disposition

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It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

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Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

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The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.

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Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

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